Word: alcatraz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alcatraz Island (First National-Warner Bros.). Studio magic simulates the stern Federal penitentiary in San Francisco Bay, involves it in a loose-jointed melodrama acted by John Litel, Ann Sheridan, Mary Maguire, Dick Purcell and Gordon Oliver...
...Alcatraz, gloomy fortress on an island in San Francisco Bay is the Federal Government's stronghold for hardened offenders. At Alcatraz trouble started last week when 23 prisoners refused to leave their cells to work. One hundred of the 280 inmates went on strike. When Warden James A. Johnston went to the prison mess-hall during inspection, Convict Burton Phillips, serving a life term for kidnapping, jumped on the 63-year-old warden from behind. Before guards could help him, Warden Johnston had been knocked down and savagely beaten...
Tattnall State Prison, brand new "Alcatraz of the Piney Woods" was designed to stop Georgia chain-gang and prison-camp escapes, which have embarrassed Georgia's Governor Eureth Dickinson Rivers. Last week, the Governor of Georgia was embarrassed again. Six of "escape proof" Tattnalls first tenants coolly sawed through their bars, wriggled through a trap door. Three of the six then clambered over a barbed wire fence, scampered off into the pine woods...
Gloomiest U. S. repository for incurable criminals and generally considered the hardest to escape from is currently the Federal Government's Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay. Last week, Pennsylvania announced plans for an unique State prison which, even gloomier than Alcatraz, should be at least as inescapable...
...Henry Suydam who took the lid of secrecy off the Federal prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay, made arrangements for spot-news releases on happenings in that famed and gloomy jail. As a pressagent, Assistant Suydam knew what Washington correspondents wanted because he had been a successful one himself. Brooklyn-born and Dutch-speaking, he was World War Correspondent for the Brooklyn Eagle. He ran the Eagle's Washington Bureau from 1922 until he left to help out Homer Cummings. In his old office in the Colorado Building, Henry Suydam was a neighbor of the Newark News...